Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-29
ON HJH ANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures from
Tive tOEi3ht Points Higher Money
Market Easy.
EFheHt Opened Strong, FIuctuatcd Sharply
ard Closed Iowe--L,vo stock Trans
actions Brisk.
Daily Review.
GAZETTE OFFICE,
Fo.r WORTH, Ten. july -, 1857. I

GAZETTE OFFICE, J
FoEr WORTH, Ten. july -, 1851.
Trade was booming to-dsy. Retailers
report the heavies! business ever trans
acted in one day. wholesale mcn were
slso busy to-day.
Butter, eggs end chickens have gone
booming and the market is bare, with s
brisk demsDd.
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's re
port I'll increased NUMBER offavoring bus
mess conditions ct more important trade
CenteT5, notably 81 Philadelphia, where
autumn trading mas begun in dry goods,
and at New York, where similar reports
are made, the chief stimulus 70 @ portion
OF the heavier movement b-iug tie Eew
railing Of the trunk-liae commission on
the classification Of cotton goods. AtSt
Louis business is very good for the sea-
son, there being an excellent after harvest
remaud in the country tributary thereto.
The sales OF dry goods and hardware sre
heavier 81 s.. Joseph and the fall demand
is pronounced. Trade &c Denver is re
ported At over - Ter cent iu excess Of
July 1856. Kansas CITY il building az
actively IS ever, ant sending out more
staple goods than previously, though
trade there in dry goods and grain is less
than q week ago There SIRE O few com
plants OF the effects 0i hot weather on
general trade, particularly a. Cincinnati,
Pitts5urg and Dallas. Business at Gal
weston is temporarily depressed by the
failure Of 8 large cotton drm, but crop
prospects in that region sre good
Crop reports teIeCraphed to Brad
streets are favorable Tor cotton a1d rice
The bulk OF winter wheat has been hsr-
vested, and the outlook is for 80 COO Geo
less production than in 1856; spring
wheat production may be 5000, 900 BUSH
els less or a total crop of AZ, 200,
against 457, eco, 600 LAST year. A severe
drou.h has threatened serious dam
age to crops in Ohio, Ken
lucky, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas,
Missouri end lowe, but late Geographic
advice5 report rains in Ohio, Illinois,
lows and Missouri, which affected prices
at once.
a special report to Brsdstreevs Of old
wheat Ia farmers han1s, at towns not
counted by official yisi7Ia-supply
reporters and a. northwestern interior
elevators, SHOWS total Of
81, 800 600 bushels of invisible wheq.
on JAY J., as compared with
b, 500, zoe bushels one year ago, q decline
of pereert. Adding official visible
supp u totals for those dates, together
with equlysIcuc number of bushels Of
wEest Of visible wheat flour, reported by
B.adstress's ON July /, l~~- end 1856
and gcanG total OF -, 600 GOO bGsdeIs OF
visible md Invisible wheat is found this
Yesrr aGsinst Is. 100000 year &go, au in
crease Of ] pei cent.
Special rePorssto B-sfstreet's Of cross
earnings Of l07 railways for jane and for
six months for fOuryears, show thatJune,
1857, q rnincs increased Is per cent. over
June F8> So, - per can't. and l. per cent,
respectively, over 1855 and ls,4. For six
months OtlsN7 the increases are - per
cent. over 1856, Is oveTlssj, and 70 per
cent. over ls,t Tle indications are that /
the second half Of 1857 will show g some
what larger increase over the three pre- |
cediHg years - Bradstreet's.